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Andi Kleen wrote:
> Can you please queue this patch in -mm for .25. It was posted earlier
> and nobody complained.

I'm sure I complained.  I'm sure I said something about SCO
compatibility.  This is a sleeping giant for Linux.  There are plenty of
machines running legacy SCO applications, just waiting for painless
migration to some other platform.

We should not be dismantling the scaffolding that's needed for that.